Page 127 of Losing My Siren Luna

Lachlan POV

I fell to my knees on the dock. My anguish is suffocating. It’s choking me. My lungs can’t get enough oxygen. My body is trembling. Killian’s howls of pain echo in my head.

What should I do?

This is like my rejection all over again, only this time….This time it really feels hopeless. I was trying. I was trying to fix everything, every wrong I ever committed against my mate. One misunderstanding, one thing that wasn’t even my fault ruined it all.

She left me.

Again.

“Alpha,” Cherum falls to his knees beside me, staring out at the ocean just like me, only in shock. “She was….she’s….a siren.”

I didn’t reply to him. He saw as well as I did. He doesn’t need me to confirm it. I don’t know if I can speak without choking up anyway.

“That’s what that flounder meant,” Cherum mumbles.

“What?” I choked, then looked at him from the corner of my eye, then quickly turned them back to the ocean, not ready to give up hope of my wife coming back yet.

She should know it wasn’t as it seemed. She knows my love for her is too deep to do that. She should know deep down I didn’t betray her.

“Cedric. When he got back, he told Ela that he came from seeing her father, but he also told me that her father was the Siren King. It makes sense now.”

I furrow my brows. He told Lira that her father was the Siren King? That wasn’t allowed.

“What else did he say?” I asked, turning to grab the collar of Cherum’s shirt.

He looks at me with surprise. “I don’t know, Alpha. They fought, I know that,” he sputters, trying not to fall back from my sudden movement. “She made him leave.”

They fought? Over what?

Wait, Cedric can go after her. He can follow her where I can’t.

I looked at the sea one last time, hoping to catch some movement to indicate Lira might still be out there, but there was nothing. Just the vast, open sea.

I need to find Cedric. I need to plead with him to find her and bring her back.

As if he heard my thoughts, Cedric at that moment came racing down from the castle to the docks, Meldec not far behind him.

“Where is she?” he asked in a panic. “What happened?”

I pointed out to the sea. “It seems she gained her fins somehow.”

“What?” He stared wide-eyed at the ocean, then back at me. “She….she unlocked her magic?”

“So it would appear,” I muttered.

“No,” Cedric shook his head. “I didn’t know. I didn’t know it would be that great of a shock.”

“What would?” I took a step forward, Killian taking focus from his despair to come forward in my mind.

“I….I told her. I told her the truth. I told her about her father bringing her back.”

“What?” I stared at him in disbelief. My eyes feel as if they are bugging out of my head, my panic multiplying. “You told hereverything?Why?” I wanted to be there when she found out so I could apologize. So I could explain my reasons for everything in our first life.

“I thought it would help her to know she could talk with us. She could tell us what happened before and….and we could help her. Those men, Alpha. I think they hurt her.”

I’m sure they did. I was taking care of them all morning because I was sure they were guilty of many crimes against my wife and her mother, along with many more.